Patrick Kennedy

SAN FRANCISCO - The tiny apartments are touted as "affordable by design. " New York City has launched a pilot project to test them out. Boston is doing it too. But here in San Francisco, where a growing number of residents are being priced out of the housing market by a revived tech economy, city leaders are considering the smallest micro-units of all. At a minimum 150 square feet of living space - 220 when you add the bathroom, kitchen and...

Mesmerizing and haunting, "The Jeffrey Dahmer Files" is an inside-out serial killer movie, lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in part for those who think they never want to see another serial killer movie. A hybrid of documentary and fiction, the film is directed by Milwaukee-based Chris James Thompson in his feature debut. Rather than indulging in exploitation kicks, the film engages more with Dahmer's impact on the community. The fictional footage features Andrew Swant as the notorious Dahmer, who murdered and dismembered 17 people; he seems to be a bland, weird-but-harmless blank slate.

Speaking in Providence, R.I., for his grief-stricken relatives, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) thanked Americans for their expressions of sympathy over the death of his cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr. "It made an enormous difference in my family's ability to cope with this very tragic loss," said Kennedy, 32, a son of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). JFK Jr.'s private plane crashed off Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

SAN FRANCISCO - The tiny apartments are touted as "affordable by design. " New York City has launched a pilot project to test them out. Boston is doing it too. But here in San Francisco, where a growing number of residents are being priced out of the housing market by a revived tech economy, city leaders are considering the smallest micro-units of all. At a minimum 150 square feet of living space - 220 when you add the bathroom, kitchen and...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), the fifth-ranking member of the House Democratic leadership, will be the featured speaker at a fund-raising breakfast for congressional candidate Michael Case on Monday. Case, a Ventura lawyer, is challenging Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley), who is seeking an eighth term in Congress. Case said Kennedy's trip to Ventura County shows that "this race is an important opportunity to help win a Democratic majority in the House this year."

Patrick Kennedy on Wednesday became the latest member of his famous family to win a race for public office, soundly defeating a state representative in a Democratic primary in Rhode Island. Kennedy, a 21-year-old junior at Providence College and son of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, beat five-term incumbent state Rep. John F. Skeffington Jr. in a west Providence district. He has no Republican opposition in the November general election.

Orange County's popular Irish folk group Paddy West will give its annual St. Patrick's Day concert at Orange Coast College on Saturday, but this year's affair will be a bittersweet celebration. In December, the group's founder, Irish-born singer and songwriter Patrick Kennedy, died in his sleep at age 45, apparently of heart failure. The group's remaining members, Jessie Kelly and George Kavanaugh, will perform as a tribute to Kennedy.

On Smith Hill, just around the corner from Providence College, the annual pancake breakfast at St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church is a cherished May ritual. Usually, hearty helpings of parish gossip are served up alongside scrambled eggs and sausages. On Saturday, the event buzzed with just one topic of conversation: Patrick Kennedy. "No one was talking of anything else," said 80-year-old Lou Sharelo, who arrived at 5:30 a.m. to set up tables for hundreds of guests.

It was election day 1988 and Patrick J. Kennedy was launching his political career with a big assist from his vast and famous family. Running for the Rhode Island Legislature at the callow age of 21, he stationed relatives--including his father, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)--outside polling places. They didn't just shake hands. The photogenic clan posed for Polaroids with voters. The young Kennedy swept to victory and, while still in his 20s, moved on to the U.S. House.

Mesmerizing and haunting, "The Jeffrey Dahmer Files" is an inside-out serial killer movie, lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in part for those who think they never want to see another serial killer movie. A hybrid of documentary and fiction, the film is directed by Milwaukee-based Chris James Thompson in his feature debut. Rather than indulging in exploitation kicks, the film engages more with Dahmer's impact on the community. The fictional footage features Andrew Swant as the notorious Dahmer, who murdered and dismembered 17 people; he seems to be a bland, weird-but-harmless blank slate.

Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died Friday at a Washington, D.C.-area health club after her daily workout, said her brother Patrick. She was 51. "She's with Dad," said her brother, a former congressman from Rhode Island. Their father, who had a malignant brain tumor, died in 2009 at age 77 . She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2002, and doctors removed a malignant tumor the next year. Patrick Kennedy said she loved to exercise but the cancer treatment "took quite a toll on her" and "her heart gave out. " Her mother, Joan Kennedy, told the Boston Globe that Kara's death was "such a shock because she was in such good health.

The daughters of two legendary Democratic politicians have died: Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale. Both women had been battling cancer. Their deaths were announced by their families Saturday, according to the Associated Press. Kennedy, 51, died at a health club in the Washington area, said her brother, Patrick Kennedy, a former Democratic congressman from Rhode Island.

Fresh from his hospitalization for surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor, Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy announced it was "good to be home" in Cape Cod on Monday and headed out for a sail. Kennedy left Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., in the morning and arrived at his family's compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., just before noon. Within hours, he went sailing with his wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy.

A pair of U.S. lawmakers visited the Syrian capital on Sunday in an attempt to persuade the Arab state to make peace with Israel and woo it from the Iranian sphere of influence. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) visited Syria after a trip to neighboring Israel, which gave its blessing to the lawmakers' mediation effort. Israel and Syria have been in a state of war for decades despite occasional diplomatic forays between the two nations.

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs in a plea bargain with prosecutors stemming from a middle-of-the-night incident last month in which he nearly sideswiped a police cruiser. District of Columbia Superior Court Magistrate Judge Aida Melendez placed the six-term congressman on supervised probation for a year.

On Smith Hill, just around the corner from Providence College, the annual pancake breakfast at St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church is a cherished May ritual. Usually, hearty helpings of parish gossip are served up alongside scrambled eggs and sausages. On Saturday, the event buzzed with just one topic of conversation: Patrick Kennedy. "No one was talking of anything else," said 80-year-old Lou Sharelo, who arrived at 5:30 a.m. to set up tables for hundreds of guests.

The drug that Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) said he took to treat an inflamed stomach is commonly used to control the nausea from prescription painkillers and rarely used for stomach ailments, experts said Friday. Phenergan is also sometimes used by drug abusers to enhance their highs from opium-derived painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, said Dr. Bankole Johnson, an addiction expert at the University of Virginia.

Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died Friday at a Washington, D.C.-area health club after her daily workout, said her brother Patrick. She was 51. "She's with Dad," said her brother, a former congressman from Rhode Island. Their father, who had a malignant brain tumor, died in 2009 at age 77 . She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2002, and doctors removed a malignant tumor the next year. Patrick Kennedy said she loved to exercise but the cancer treatment "took quite a toll on her" and "her heart gave out. " Her mother, Joan Kennedy, told the Boston Globe that Kara's death was "such a shock because she was in such good health.

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, saying he had no memory of a highly publicized early-morning accident in which he plowed his car into a security barricade near Capitol Hill, announced Friday that he would be checking himself into the Mayo Clinic for treatment of addiction to prescription drugs. The Democrat from Rhode Island, whose father is Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.

The drug that Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) said he took to treat an inflamed stomach is commonly used to control the nausea from prescription painkillers and rarely used for stomach ailments, experts said Friday. Phenergan is also sometimes used by drug abusers to enhance their highs from opium-derived painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, said Dr. Bankole Johnson, an addiction expert at the University of Virginia.